Re: Indic Vowel/Consonant combinations

[Jjagenbroad]

                                               Thursday, February 13, 2003
Marco, et al.,
    The example you cite (3.0, page 222, table 9-2, fourth from last example) is of Ha (U+0939) and the Ri vowel sign (U+0943). I don't see its relevance to Ra (U+0930) and the Ri vowel sign (U+0943).  
    The last example in figure 9-3 of page 214 and adjacent text is simply wrong.  Following a halant (U+094D) with a vowel sign or a stand along vowel amounts to saying, "There's no vowel here, here's a vowel" which is  in conflict with the basics of Devanagari writing.  If necessary I guess this unfortunate example might remain in Unicode but I would hope that the preferable encoding (U+0930 U+9043) needed to get the desired glyph: 090B with reph above it could also be included.
    Regards,
         Jim Agenbroad ([EMAIL PROTECTED])